20 Sentences to stop overthinking

Here are 20 Sentences to Stop Overthinking by Nir Eyal. 

Use these one-liners as mantras when your brain won't switch off.

1. I don't need certainty to act. 
2. If it's reversible, I decide fast. 
3. I choose one next step, not ten. 
4. I don't solve feelings; I surf them. 
5. My thoughts are not instructions. 
6. Action creates clarity, not thought. 
7. I write it down so my brain can rest. 
8. I'm allowed to move with partial info. 
9. I give myself a deadline, then choose. 
10. I ask, "What's the next visible action?" 
11. I schedule thinking so that I don't spiral. 
12. I trade rumination for one small experiment. 
13. I let future-me correct, not present-me freeze. 
14. I'm aiming for progress, not the perfect plan. 
15. I ask, "What would this look like if it were easy?" 
16. I accept that some questions stay open while I move. 
17. I notice loops and ask, Is this helping or just hindering?" 
18. I'm the kind of person who stops rehearsing and starts doing. 
19. If it won't matter in 5 years, it doesn't get this much brainspace. 
20. I'd rather be roughly right in motion than stuck "perfecting" ideas.

~ from the interwebs

Wordy, but profound -

The distance between deciding and doing is the single most reliable predictor of whether your life will be extraordinary or ordinary. Not talent, not circumstances, not even the quality of your decisions—but how quickly you collapse the space between intention and reality. Think of this gap as a kind of friction coefficient on your existence: the smaller it is, the more of your internal force actually translates into external motion. When you can move from "I should do this" to physically doing it within hours instead of weeks, you're not just accomplishing more—you're operating in a fundamentally different mode of being where your thoughts have immediate consequences in the world, where your inner life and outer life are in constant, tight conversation. 

This matters profoundly because success isn't really about outcomes—it's about iteration speed. The person who can decide and act in the same breath gets ten attempts at something while someone with a week-long gap between decision and execution gets one.They fail faster, learn faster, course-correct faster, and compound their advantages faster. More crucially, they remain in contact with reality. When your decisions meet the world immediately, you get immediate feedback about whether they were good decisions. You can't hide in comfortable delusions about what you would do or could do because you're constantly discovering what you actually do. This brutal, liberating honesty with reality is what separates people who achieve extraordinary things from people who have extraordinary intentions. 

The ultimate insight is that shrinking this gap isn't just correlated with success —it might be the most honest definition of success we have. Because what is success except proof that you actually lived according to your own values and vision? That you were who you said you were? Every moment between decision and action is a moment of self-betrayal, a small death where a possible version of you fails to be born. 

Successful people have built lives with almost no lag between recognition and response, between seeing what needs doing and doing it. They've achieved something most people never do: they've synchronized their two selves—the one who knows and the one who acts—into a single, undivided person moving through the world with uncommon force.

~ from the inter webs